You know, we don't *need* Legacy only in xCAT 2.7 anymore for RHEL6, SLES11, Win2k8, and ESXi5. Older versions of each would need Legacy only though.
Other than that, looks reasonable enough. The performance and efficiency impact of the settings vary by workload of course, so the 'your mileage may vary' is very true. The exception would be HS23 servers. There you'd also want to put Legacy serial data out COM2 instead of COM1. For all the rackmount/iDataplex and Flex servers, COM1 default is good. From: Arif Ali <[email protected]> To: "Mailing list, xCAT" <[email protected]>, Date: 04/19/2012 02:54 PM Subject: [xcat-user] IBM M4 nodes All, For anyone installing M4 nodes, below is the corresponding ASU settings that I have used that are similar to the hpc/sol settings in /opt/xcat/share/templates. It could be that we no longer require the BootOrder definition, as the uEFI PXE boot should now work. This has worked for me, any ideas from anyone that would go a bit further in terms of configuration. loaddefault uEFI loaddefault BootOrder set BootOrder.BootOrder "Legacy Only=PXE Network=Hard Disk 0" set Processors.Hyper-Threading Disable set DevicesandIOPorts.RemoteConsole Enable set DevicesandIOPorts.SerialPortSharing Enable set DevicesandIOPorts.SerialPortAccessMode Dedicated set DevicesandIOPorts.Com1TerminalEmulation VT100 set DevicesandIOPorts.Com1ActiveAfterBoot Enable set DevicesandIOPorts.Com1FlowControl Hardware set OperatingModes.ChooseOperatingMode "Custom Mode" set Processors.C1EnhancedMode "Disable" set Processors.TurboMode "Enable" set Processors.PackageACPIC-StateLimit "ACPI C3" set Processors.QPILinkFrequency "Max Performance" regards, -- Arif Ali catch me on freenode IRC, username: arif-ali ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
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